Comment 3 for bug 551544

To clarify, assuming the status situation with upstarted init.d scripts is resolved, I don't see any major reason why the existing provider wouldn't continue to at least function well enough for users?

The update-rc situation isn't ideal, which is why I suggested an initctl based provider, which really should be trivial to write given it already supports start, stop, status and list.

I don't see Puppet upstream integrating such a provider into the 0.25.x series as the commit rules are now for no new functionality to go into minor updates in a release series, but if someone puts it together soon, it can definitely make it into 'rowlf', the next major version.